xfer problems sco-sun

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>Bill Campbell wrote:
>[...]
>> >Would that it were that simple: it's the twenty byte header at the
>> >beginning *of each record* that needs bytes swapped.
>> 
>> Complicated by the fact that the FP key and data records are fixed length
>> with no \n linefeed delimiter so one has to read fixed length.
>
>I've never heard of a binary file that used text-based record delimiters.

FP files have few binary parts, the file header record, and the
20 byte header on each key file record, the data itself is
straight ascii (or at least it was the last time I dug into FP
files in depth).

Ending the files with a line feed would make it easier to manipulate them
with standard tools.

Bill
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